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Paul Jewell <paul@×××××.org> skribis: |
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> I am also concerned by these developments with the likes of udev/systemd |
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> etc, but in the case of xorg isn't the situation a little different? Are |
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> the existing developers of xorg developing weyland, or is it a different |
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> group? If this is the case, then hopefully the development of xorg will |
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> continue allowing those of us who wish, to continue to use it into the |
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> future. I hope this is the case, as this, in my opinion, encourages |
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> excellence in the code. Having no pressure from an alternative leads to |
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> the types of problems you experience with fontconfig. |
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I view freedesktop stuff as if it were one package, because |
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effectively it works out that way; the individual parts come as a |
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group. In this case it is even less practical to just write an |
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alternative, since all the graphical applications use the fontconfig |
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API, and it is _that_ which is broken. I am not about to go modify |
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every graphical application and every part of freedesktop, donate the |
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code, and then go my own way, expecting the fixes to be |
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adopted. Nothing short of a fork of the entire repertoire is likely to |
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achieve the desired result. |
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The FAQ portions given here are not encouraging to me: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29 |
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They make good points, but make them in the wrong way; notice the tone |
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of mockery towards X. I’d be happier with a project that spoke |
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respectfully of what it was trying to bring up to date. |
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(My variant fontconfig has an ebuild at |
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https://bitbucket.org/chemoelectric/chemoelectric-overlay/src/b6bdf9375e61a38241ff1eb2fc98ed9ce6fcd406/media-libs/fontconfig?at=master |
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It’s based on an old snapshot of fontconfig. The main thing it does is |
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turn off broken functionality for grouping fonts. BTW |
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pkg-config.freedesktop.org is even more fundamental but also seems to |
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have serious problems, at least on Gentoo, though in this case the |
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problems are just bugs, and dev-util/pkgconfig-openbsd is a working |
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alternative. The latter will barf on some .pc files, but whenever I’ve |
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encountered this it was the .pc file that was broken.) |
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